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4/24/97 Comments by Helen Vanderberg
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- Added chapter on Unified Name Service (new capability in IRIX 6.5)
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- Updated the chapter on Network Management in accordance with suggestions
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to use the O'Reilly books as references, and include only the differences
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that occur in the IRIX system.
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- Updated sendmail chapter
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- Added procedure on password-protected ftp.
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9/11/96 Comments by Pam Sogard
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Added section on IP aliasing (new capability). Fixed bugs against
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the book and added changes recommended by Vernon Schryver (including
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updating 'ping' examples for new output format). Updated network examples
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so addresses are in compliance with the ranges specified in SGI Style
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Guide (see "Network Addresses").
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Did not make the changes suggested by Arthur Evans. These changes would
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have required more engineering resources than were available for this
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revision (IRIX 6.4).
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1995 Comments by Arthur Evans:
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Things to do to the network administration book:
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- Example configuration in DNS/BIND chapter should be changed. Ideally,
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it should be replaced with an entirely new, realistic example. At the
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least, it should be changed to use the same domain name (currently
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salad.com) as the rest of the examples.
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- Could use a section on troubleshooting routing.
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- sendmail chapter should be replaced by a chapter on our sendmail
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configuration utility, configmail. (The current chapter contains some
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information about configmail. Robert Stephens should be able to tell
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us what material we need to save, and what material we need to cut out.)
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- The book could use more troubleshooting information. I think a section
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on troubleshooting routing (and for that matter, more information on
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setting up routing) would be helpful, especially for people setting up
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SLIP and PPP connections.
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- The sections in Chapter 2 that discuss the Internet, the domain
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system, and the Network Information Centers should be reviewed. (In
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particular, make sure all the FTP and WWW servers listed still
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work--seems like the NICs are going through a period of change right
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now, with the world so new and all.) Also, the discussion of domains is
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currently slanted towards the US organization-type domains (.com, .gov,
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.edu, .org, .mil), and makes little mention of the national domains
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used by the rest of the world (.uk, .fr, .ca, .br ...), and no mention
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of the US equivalent (bigmon.boulder.co.us, asylum.sf.ca.us).
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- List more Ethernet errors. There's currently an open bug/rfe on this,
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#269907. Some, but not all of the errors mentioned have been added to
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the Troubleshooting Your Ethernet Connection section (currently
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in chapter 3).
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- some errror messages that should perhaps be covered:
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"named: Attempted to query myself on 111.111.111.11 as a name server for '111.111.111.IN-ADDR.ARPA'"
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"unix: rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper"
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"unix: ec0: no carrier: check Ethernet cable"
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"unix: arp: host with ethernet address 08:00:69:06:b8:89 is still using my IP address 192.111.15.41!"
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"unix: arp: host with ethernet address 08:00:69:06:b8:89 is using my IP address 192.111.15.41!"
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"automount: /etc/auto.home: Not found"
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- X.files-n-daemons.doc contains lists of networking-related files and daemons.
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Maybe this information should be in an appendix--or maybe not. It used to be in
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chapter 1, where it didn't seem to belong. Leaving it out entirely doesn't seem
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like much of a loss, but if you want to put it in somewhere, here it is.
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- Y.extra-sendmail.doc contains non-reference stuff cut from the "sendmail reference"
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in appendix B. This stuff mostly duplicates information in the sendmail chapter,
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08.sendmail.doc. This stuff can probably be chucked--if we decide to only
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document configmail, it can definately be chucked.
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